M.Ed. in Education and Human Resource Studies About the Organizational Learning, Performance and Change Specialization

The Organizational Learning, Performance and Change master’s specialization is designed to equip you to make a strong impact on your organization’s people and processes. You’ll be able to apply your new skills to individuals, teams, systems, and processes at your organization – or, as a consultant to many organizations seeking strategic improvements to their company.

This program includes an application component – critical to moving you from knowledge to action, and preparing you for real-world human capital and organizational performance issues. You’ll have access to organizations to experiment with the tools and techniques you learn in class, seeing results first-hand and learning to adjust your thinking to meet challenges.

Learn How to Work With Organizations at Any Level

As an organizational learning, performance and change expert, you’ll be a valuable business partner for organizations of any kind.

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Learn to Help Individuals, Teams, and Processes Perform Better

You’ll focus on specific topics during each year of this two-year, online program.

Year One Focus: Workplace Learning and Performance

You’ll learn how to solve and resolve issues at an individual level, particularly how to analyze, conceptualize, design-develop-implement, and evaluate workplace learning and performance.

Year Two Focus: Organizational Learning and Performance

The second year focuses more broadly on teams, processes and organizations, and how you can act as a strategic business partner in helping organizations determine what change is needed.

You’ll learn how to enter-contract-diagnose orgs, what action learning and inquiry is, how to plan and facilitate – then assess and close change interventions, and more.

Wondering if This Program is Right For You?

You might already work in a role that requires you to think creatively and holistically about solving issues within the organization. You might be:

In management: human resource, business or operations

In training, learning or other skills-development roles

Advising or consulting

A small business owner

In administration: education, healthcare or nonprofit

Your background might include psychology, business or sociology, as well as industries including energy, engineering, education or healthcare. Or, you might be in a different role or industry altogether.

Your developed and applied skills as a learning, performance and change problem-solver will help you get to the next level in your career.

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Designed to Fit your Life

You’re a working professional. You need a program that fits your life – not a program you have to fit your life around. This program is totally online, immersing you in the curriculum through an asynchronous learning experience.